Romantic partners can be the sounding boards for each other’s thoughts on all sorts of issues, including the climate crisis. But, until recently, there hadn’t been much examination of whether one partner’s views on climate change could influence the other’s. A research team led by the Yale School of the Environment’s Yale Program on Climate […]
James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn spoke out against the climate crisis denials pushed by his father’s media empire in an exclusive statement released to the Daily Beast. James is the younger son of the Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch who owns News Corp, and the younger brother of Lachlan Murdoch who runs Fox News. […]
By Andy Rowell After weeks of inaction and ineptitude as his country burns, as a billion animals die, with entire species potentially wiped out, and with dozens of people dead and communities and lives ripped apart, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has finally slumbered into action. Over the weekend, Morrison tweeted, “We’re putting more Defense […]
By Timothy Graham, Tobias R. Keller In the first week of 2020, hashtag #ArsonEmergency became the focal point of a new online narrative surrounding the bushfire crisis. The message: the cause is arson, not climate change. Police and bushfire services (and some journalists) have contradicted this claim. We studied about 300 Twitter accounts driving the […]
Signs added to Glacier National Park more than a decade ago predicting that the glaciers would be gone by 2020 are being taken down and replaced, as CNN reported. The signs were first put up over a decade ago when climate models predicted the glaciers would melt. By 2017, the projections had been revised, but […]
By Eoin Higgins Australia is on fire. The country on Saturday saw delayed flights on the second day of a national state of emergency due to raging brushfires near every major city and choked-out smoke conditions. Australian reporter Saffron Howden used a map from the Government of Western Australia to show how the blazes have […]
By Andy Rowell The press release from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says it all: “Another year, another record.” It is a record we do not want. It is a record of political failure. It is a record based on the politics of climate denial. We have crossed another climate threshold that, yet again, signals […]
By Sabrina Kessler Far-reaching allegations about how a climate-sinning American multinational could shamelessly lie to the public about its wrongdoing mobilized a small group of New York students on a cold November morning. They stood in front of New York’s Supreme Court last week to follow the unprecedented lawsuit against ExxonMobil. The case is not […]
The U.S. Senate’s bipartisan climate caucus started with just two members, a Republican from Indiana and a Democrat from Delaware. Now it’s up to eight members after two Democrats, one Independent and three more Republicans joined the caucus last week, as The Hill reported. In unsurprising fashion, the eight senators who joined the caucus acknowledged […]